Show #2301 - Monday, September 12, 1994

Contestants

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Elizabeth Hamilton, a secretary from Everett, Massachusetts

Rowan Carroll, a consultant from Chicago, Illinois

Matt Handel, a marketing analyst from Wayne, Pennsylvania (whose 2-day cash winnings total $40,401)

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Jeopardy! Round

THE 20th CENTURY
CLASSIC TELEVISION
U.S. GOVERNMENT
LANGUAGES
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
"T" TIME
    $100 7
On Aug. 28, 1963 he told those assembled at the Lincoln Memorial, "I have a dream today"
    $100 21
The idea for this series' Pebbles and Bamm Bamm came from Sheila Barbera, wife of co-creator Joe Barbera
    $100 1
More than half of the U.S. government's receipts come from these taxes
    $100 9
Dialects of this language include those of Niigata, Shizuoka & Toyama
    $100 26
There are 13 units in this type of dozen
    $100 2
It's what some kids call a seesaw
    $200 8
On June 28, 1971, Daniel Ellsberg admitted giving these documents to the New York Times
    $200 22
This series was No. 3 for the 1961-62 season, while reruns titled "Marshal Dillon" ranked in the top 20
    $200 17
It's the term of office for all federal judges
    $200 12
Homer wrote in a mixture of the Ionic & Aeolic forms of this language
    $200 27
This unit of weight for precious stones is equal to 200 milligrams
    $200 3
It occurs just before sunrise & just after sunset
    $300 10
In 1921 Denmark declared this island Danish territory & closed it to non-Danish vessels
    $300 23
TV character who said, "One of these days, Alice, one of these days... Pow! Right in the kisser!"
    $300 18
This agency administers the "Superfund" used to clean up hazardous toxic waste sites
    $300 13
Although French is the official language in Corsica, a Genoese dialect of this language is also spoken
    $300 28
To convert a metric one of these to a "long" one, multiply by 1.061
    $300 4
The word tuba is actually Latin for this other brass instrument
    $400 11
On Nov. 17, 1930 this golfer retired after winning the sport's Grand Slam tournaments
    $400 24
Fort Courage was the setting for this series that starred Ken Berry as Capt. Wilton Parmenter
    $400 19
The 4 members of this Council are the President, Vice President, Secretary of State & Secretary of Defense
    $400 14
Frisian is spoken mainly in this country, although it has a few speakers in Germany
    $400 29
The power of these transparent objects is measured in diopters
    $400 5
It's the name shared by Libya's capital & Lebanon's second- largest city
    $500 16
On Aug. 17, 1988 this prescription drug became the first approved for hair growth
    $500 25
Rob Petrie, Buddy Sorrell & Sally Rogers were comedy writers for this fictional TV show
    DD: $1,300 20
He was the first of 4 men to serve as Attorney General during the Nixon administration
    $500 15
This old language is used as the lingua franca among Brahman scholars from different areas of India
    $500 30
In the U.S. 8 1/3 pounds of water is equal to 1 of these units
    $500 6
It's the oldest period of the Mesozoic Era

Scores at the first commercial break (after clue 15):

Matt Rowan Elizabeth
$500 $1,200 $600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Rowan Elizabeth
$2,700 $3,200 $1,100

Double Jeopardy! Round

MYTHOLOGY
BRITISH HISTORY
HEALTH & MEDICINE
ILLINOIS
FOUNDERS
AMERICAN AUTHORS
    $200 23
Castor is famous for taming horses, while this twin brother is a wonderful boxer
    $200 1
When he died in 1658, his son Richard succeeded him as Lord Protector
    $200 2
In Thalassemia, an inherited form of anemia, these cells contain less hemoglobin than normal
    $200 3
98% of Illinois drains into this river
    $200 25
Now commonly called the Quakers, this group was founded by George Fox
    $200 11
Orchard House in Concord, Mass., where she wrote "Little Women", was made a memorial in 1911
    $400 21
Athena invented this woodwind; James Galway must be grateful
    $400 6
Named for their original designer, these cabs first appeared in London in the 1830s
    $400 4
Pellagra is a nutritional disorder caused by a deficiency of niacin, part of this vitamin complex
    $400 26
With nearly 400 judges, the Circuit Court of this county is the USA's largest unified court system
    $400 18
Charles Lubin named this baked goods company after his daughter
    $400 12
His novel "This Side of Paradise" was a revision of an earlier work that he wrote in the Army
    $600 19
The lustful Babylonian goddess Ishtar came to be identified with this Greek goddess
    $600 5
Many believe Edward III founded this knighthood order to revive the Round Table of Arthurian legend
    $600 10
Also called hypertension, this is sometimes called "the silent killer" because of its lack of symptoms
    $600 7
The largest employer in the Peoria area is this earth-moving equipment manufacturer
    $600 24
Rockwell Kent designed the original logo for this publishing company co-founded by Bennett Cerf
    $600 13
The hostile reception of his "Sister Carrie" contributed to his nervous breakdown
    $800 20
Nephthys, an Egyptian guardian deity, is the sister of this mother goddess
    $800 8
Partly due to the Irish Potato Famine, these laws regulating the supply of grains were repealed in 1846
    $800 14
This syndrome is caused by pressure placed on the median nerve in the wrist & hand
    $800 29
Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry occupies a building from this 1893 World's Fair
    $800 27
He really had Georgia on his mind, since he founded the Georgia colony
    $800 16
This author of "The Witches of Eastwick" once worked as a staff writer for the New Yorker
    $1000 22
This Norse mischief-maker is chained under dripping venom & his agonized writhing causes earthquakes
    DD: $2,000 9
Queen Victoria was the last monarch of this ruling house which began its reign in 1714
    $1000 15
This procedure is the visual examination of a joint with a lighted fiber-optic instrument
    DD: $3,000 30
In 1673 these 2 French explorers became the first white men to set foot in what is now Illinois
    $1000 28
This dance group was founded in 1952 by Amalia Hernandez in Mexico City
    $1000 17
"The Fixer", about a Jew imprisoned in Russia, earned this author a 1967 Pulitzer Prize

Scores at the end of the Double Jeopardy! Round:

Matt Rowan Elizabeth
$11,500 $12,000 $2,700

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Final Jeopardy! Round

WORLD CAPITALS
This city was founded in the 6th century as a capital in the Tonkin Lowland

Final scores:

Matt Rowan Elizabeth
$23,000 $999 $4,900
3-day champion: $63,401 3rd place: Go Video dual-deck VCR 2nd place: Keller bedroom furniture set + Burlington House bedroom decor set

Game dynamics:

Game dynamics graph

Coryat scores:

Matt Rowan Elizabeth
$9,700 $10,000 $2,700
20 R
(including 2 DDs),
2 W		 26 R
(including 1 DD),
1 W		 8 R,
1 W

Combined Coryat: $22,400

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Game tape date: 1994-07-20
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